On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Sebastian Kügler <se...@kde.org> wrote: > Hi Ben,
Hi Sebas, > > On Wednesday, April 06, 2016 09:06:56 PM Ben Cooksley wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:47 PM, Sebastian Kügler <se...@kde.org> wrote: > >> > As you may have followed, at Blue Systems, we're in the process of >> > revamping the infrastructure around add-ons, basically what is currently >> > served by opendesktop.org. >> >> Two questions if I may > > Sure. :) > >> 1) In the past opendesktop.org transferred to us nightly a copy of >> pre-OCS get hot new stuff formatted information and associated data. >> This supports KDE 3 and early KDE 4 era applications, as well as >> applications which never transitioned to using OCS. You'd be surprised >> how many hits it still gets.... >> >> What are the plans in regards to this data export? >> The data needs to be transferred to us as the applications are coded >> to use a download.kde.org url, although this should be redirectable >> without issue if need be. >> >> 2) There are some RDF (predecessor to RSS) formatted feeds which we >> download from a hidden URL on the opendesktop.org site, and then serve >> up on www.kde.org. I believe the opendesktop.org site points clients >> to the kde.org hosted copy of these feeds in it's metadata markup, at >> least it did last I checked. >> >> What is planned here in the future? >> Unfortunately as Akregator and many other clients will already be >> configured to retrieve the feed from kde.org we'll need to support >> this in some fashion (redirects shouldn't be an issue here if need >> be). > > I can't tell you much about that, since I'm blissfully unaware of these > ancient things. It sounds like something we should be able to make possible > (or keep doing), but you'll have to talk to Alexander for that. Can you get in > contact with him directly? Which Alexander do I need to contact? I can probably arrange that... > > Cheers, > -- > sebas > > http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org Thanks, Ben _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community